Oregonian columnist and associate editor David Sarasohn, who spent last week in Ashland at the Oregon Shakespeare Festival, experienced a bit more drama when he returned to work today. He learned that he's won the opinion category in the 2012 Casey Medals for Meritorious Journalism. The award recognizes a collection of columns focusing on child hunger in Oregon. The... Full story »

I believe we serve readers better by tackling issues that affect the community very directly: a proposed trail on public property that would run through a reluctant Beaverton neighborhood, for instance. Full story »

Two representatives of Economic Fairness Oregon (Executive Director Angela Martin and Communications Director Saadia McConville) visited The Oregonian editorial board on Monday afternoon to discuss the Wednesday implementation of Senate Bill 1552. Approved in strongly bipartisan fashion by the 2012 Legislature, the law requires lenders to enter mediation with mortgage holders who are under threat of foreclosure. Borrowers who’d like... Full story »

Hillsboro’s agreement last month to bring the now-Yakima Bears minor league baseball team to Oregon has made a lot of people in the Portland area happy. But grins are harder to find in Vancouver, where The Columbian laments the loss of “the baseball team that should’ve been ours.” The editorial examines the differences between Clark County’s failed effort to build... Full story »

Clatsop County District Attorney Josh Marquis visited The Oregonian Editorial Board today and discussed both the death penalty – he's a noted supporter – and the Oregon Commission on Public Safety. Full story »

An arbitrator sided with TriMet last week in its contract dispute with Amalgamated Transit Union 757. The Oregonian Editorial Board will weigh in on that decision this week. In the meantime, check out a few more opinion pieces on taxation and spending, beginning with today's Oregonian editorial about Republican candidate Knute Buehler's determination to use the Secretary of State's Office... Full story »

Multnomah County Commissioner Deborah Kafoury and Nan Waller, presiding judge of the Multnomah County Circuit Court, visited The Oregonian Editorial Board this morning to discuss the condition and future of the Multnomah County Courthouse. Full story »

Sen. Ron Wyden visited The Oregonian editorial board today and discussed, among other things, what the impending retirement of Sen. Jeff Bingaman, D-N.M., means for Wyden and, by extension, Oregon. Full story »